Orthodox Jesus

I am very much in this mode ...

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bo***ge again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out 'Abba, Father.' For The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God." -- (Romans 8:14-16, NKJV)

Being adopted is very much a privileged place to be. Think of it! To be adopted by God. That's a choice, a clear eternal decision. The "spirit of bo***ge" is a place of works, of unacceptance. On the other hand, we we are living free by the hand of God's Spirit we are adopted into the Household of Life and Freedom. So each day I am in this mode. I challenge you to be so too. Find your way to adoption, if you have not already, by our Dear Father in Heaven. He has made a way, in His Son, Jesus. Forgiveness through the blood of the His Cross is the path to being led by the Spirit.

Put to rest in your mind, once and for all, the false witnesses, who claim the New Testament witness of our Lord's Resurrection occurred decades maybe hundred years after the fact. This testimony is blatantly false.

The dates on the composition of the texts on the resurrection start with the Apostle Paul, not the Gospels themselves. Paul's 1 Cor 15 cannot have been written any later than 22 years after the event. If you read just that one section of scripture, you would (barring complete unwillingness) know for historical fact, that any dates beyond 30 to 60 years are way off, and way too late. Galatians would be even earlier. As little as 15 years out, perhaps between 45-50 A.D. Even if you take the latest historically accepted date, 95 A.D. for the Gospel of John, you are only talking about 62 years from the accepted Crucifixion date of 33 A.D. There is absolutely no reason for any Christian to accept the wild, blatant fictions of 100 years put forward by the ignorant and atheists who wouldn't know a primary source witness from a noon day sun.

Everything necessary to secure the truth of the Resurrection was known and available within the same generation of the Lord's and his Apostles. The subsequent generations from the 1st to the 21st added nothing to this witness, nor subtracted from it.

"3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas,[b] and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born."

-- The First Letter of the Apostle Paul to the 1st Century Christians in the City of Corinth in Greece, 55 A.D. (1 Cor. 15:1-8, NIV)